This is a general reply to the issues of missbehaving kids.
I have this little book: "The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible!". It's a book that sort of dipels the myth that somehow in the days of yor people were better off, or society was more stable, moral, etc.
Infact, Juvenile Delinquency was a plague of the cities in the late 1800's and early 1900's. This particular book cites statistics saying that in any given month upward of 10'000 children were in jail in chicago alone.
Fact is tho, those children weren't really considered children as when you were about 8 you were considered fit to work. Often kids left the house at 13 to go fend for themselves.
In a chapter titled Discipline it talks about the "little red school house" of days gone by. As it turns out, discipline was a major problem back in those days. They even had their own "columbine" incedents where a teacher, who punished one of the kids, was ganged up on by the entire class and stoned to death!
Anyway, just wanted to dispel the nonsense about liberal's don't beat their kids enugh.
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